To me it looks like a pruned golden mop false cypress.

Some cultivar of Chamaecyparis pisifera var. filifera, aka a threadleaf cypress.

some of the threadleaf chams can get HUGE .... to the point where a little pruning is not going to keep them small ...

so if you are looking for a small thing.. make sure you find the right cultivar ... just look at the pix below ....

and be sure you understand .. that conifers are trees .. and they will never stop growing ... so even tiny ones can have big potential, over the decades ...

note in your pic ... how poorly sited the plant is ... with no concept that even with pruning ... its going to be growing onto what looks like the side of the house ... it would have been better planted at 3 to 5 feet from the house ....

ken

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=golden+thread+leaf+chamaecyparis&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=1&ia=images

Not what this plant is but FWIW Platycladus is grown all over, not just in Australia. And the most planted kinds are often little partly yellow round specimens when first purchased.